#telling the truth

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#democrats #lies #republicans #stop #telling

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it? ↗

— Anthony Hope

#generally #misunderstand #people #promoting #telling

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth. ↗

— Eric Carr

#i #just #lie #own #people

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#both sides #caught #ever #good #hand

I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#feel #got #i #i feel #i feel like

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted. ↗

— Michael Musto

#been #bribery #deception #exhausted #few

I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth. ↗

— Bob Graham

#aims #come #completion #concluded #distraction

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ↗

— George Orwell

#deceit #revolutionary #telling #telling the truth #time

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy. ↗

— Lee Child

#genuinely #her #i #lying #making

Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims. ↗

— Juan Williams

#airplane #am #attacks #bigoted #dressed